MILL TOWN.

By Bill Cahn '34. New York:Cameron & Kahn, 1954. 286 pp. $I.50.

This is a book of pictures and some text that attempts to tell the story of the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts. The emphasis is on the mill workers of that industrial center.

With 269 pages of pictures and text, no less than 145 pages deal with the Strike of 1912; which seems to this reviewer a condition of unbalance.

But perhaps the author's purpose is to use a situation of admitted injustice and official violence as propaganda.

The heroes and heroines of this book appear to be not the overworked, underpaid men, women and children of the Lawrence mills of 1912, but rather William Haywood, Joseph Ettor, Arturo Giovannetti, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. The first three were active in the Industrial Workers of the World and led the strike. The I.W.W., radical itself, bred many later leaders of the American Communist movement, among whom was Miss E. G. Flynn.

Most of the author's references or sources were of the left wing, and some from the extreme left section.